Soup follows : It's luscious cream of pumpkin veloute garnished with ginger and lime . Next were fresh and chunky garden salad from the hills of Tagaytay.
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The first series of tests determined the best and easiest way to make a veloute, a sauce made of stock thickened by roux that makes a base for gravy.
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Other thickeners proved unsuccessful, but tapioca flour won out over corn starch and potato starch, although it still couldn't compare to the roux-thickened veloutes.
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The poached guinea fowl, over a Ramsay-esque blanket of braised romaine, was something else again, simple, moist and flavorful, with an earthy mushroom veloute.
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But now he's a Californian at heart, and his Leek and Corn Veloute with Rock Shrimp is amazing for its simplicity and for its full-rich flavors.
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It was lighter than similar sauces made from a veloute or thickened with a roux, because it was made like a beurre blanc, with butter mounted into reduced vinegar.
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The soup course _ a rich, velvety corn and crab veloute with Florida rock shrimp, crawfish ravioli and grilled andouille sausage ( $ 9 ) _ sets the standard.
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The names _ bechamel, veloute, sauce Robert _ whizzed by as the chef demonstrated each, along with methods for recovery if the sauce is too liquid, for example.
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I usually avoid venison like a vegan but could not help finishing every bit of the well-peppered fillet that came with an onion veloute in an onion cooked in confit.
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RECOMMENDED DISHES : Shellfish veloute with sea urchin mousse; seared sea bass with lemon rock salt and lemon pasta; gratinee of cepes, Swiss chard and truffles; scallops with caviar.
